An Industrial IoT Anniversary

Wow, what a year! This post marks the one year anniversary of publishing Industrial IoT top news, trends and highlights, and we wanted to dedicate a recap post to our favorite articles throughout the past year. In particular, a lot of attention has been paid to the happenings in precision agriculture, oil and gas, unmanned systems, the smart grid, public utilities, manufacturing, machines and machine learning, fog computing, big data, sensor technology, wireless technology and cybersecurity, to name a few.

Read on for the top 10 articles we’ve posted since last August and make sure to see the special bonus at the end!

1. Precision Ag: Big data is precision agriculture’s best tool to feed the world

“Big data can be the most flexible tool for increasing the efficiency of food production through precision agriculture – a quantified approach to cultivation that uses sensing, input modulation, and data analytics to enhance the efficiency of agriculture.”

2. Oil and Gas: In the digital oil field, “no wires” is a no-brainer

“Wireless technology plays an integral part in the day-to-day operations of virtually every industry on the planet. However, if you spent your time visiting most of the world’s oil fields, you wouldn’t believe that.

Despite being a rather obvious fit with the inherent nature of the oilfield services sector (OFS), wireless I/O has been adopted by producers at a slow pace, with most continuing to rely upon miles and miles of fault-prone wire to connect onsite control centers with wellsite instrumentation.”

4. Utilities: Wastewater Treatment: Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Thanks to IIoT)

“Water is a crucial piece of any city’s – or country’s – infrastructure. The United States is fortunate to have some of safest drinking water in the world, for a number of reasons, one of which is its many water and wastewater treatment facilities.”

5. Manufacturing: Bringing Smart Technology to Old Factories Can Be Industrial-Size Challenge

“It’s a tantalizing vision: Bright and shiny factories where robotic arms and conveyors never break down and production goals are never missed—all thanks to internet-connected sensors that monitor machine health and respond to the slightest supply or logistics hiccup.”

7. Fog Computing: Why IoT Needs Fog Computing

“The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the hottest mega-trends in technology – and for good reason , IoT deals with all the components of what we consider web 3.0 including Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing and Mobile Computing.”

8. Sensors: The Army Wants to Implant Body Sensors into Combat Soldiers

“In the near future, American soldiers might all be implanted with a sensor before going to battle.

The United States Department of Defense is interested in monitoring the health of soldiers in real-time. But wearable health trackers have faults and limitations. That’s why the Army Research Office and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have awarded $7.5 million to San Francisco-based Profusa to develop tissue-integrated health-monitoring sensors for service members.”

9. Wireless Tech: Industrial Wireless Revolution

“Wireless technology is an essential business enabler for the automation world. It has gained rapid acceptance in many industrial sectors because of its cost effectiveness, reliability, fast deployment, and flexibility. Over the past four decades, ultrahigh frequency (UHF) radios have been widely used for long-range supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) connectivity in the oil and gas and power and utility sectors.”

10. Cybersecurity: Navigating Industrial IoT risk and complexity

“As massive networks of systems come online, they will need to communicate with each other and with the enterprise, often over vast distances. Both the systems and the communications need to be secure or millions of dollars in assets will be put at risk. One example of the need for security is on the smart utility grid, which is on the leading edge of the IIoT.”

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Sensor-2-Server: Intelligent Data Communication at the Access Layer

Sensor-2-Server (S2S) is intelligent communication that begins at the sensor level and targets specific servers for specific reasons. These servers could include anything from a SCADA data server that collects and monitors through the SCADA system or a Big Data engine. S2S can be leveraged in a predictive analytics engine that compares the “data at rest” stored in a database to “data in motion” in real time from the access layer (the outer edge) of the IT network.
As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes increasingly adopted by industrial markets, there will be greater demand for video, voice, data and sensor (VVDS™) data communication from the access layer. Industries like oil and gas, electric power, agriculture, and utilities are starting to realize the benefits of S2S when it comes to profitability and cost savings by being able to leverage more advanced intelligence to drive action for change.